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Martín Arias and Martín Hadis (eds.), Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature 25 Aug 2013 | 05:26 pm
In England, however, poets finally realized that these metaphors – some of which, I repeat, were very beautiful, like the one that called the bird the "summer guardian" ended up hobbling poetry, so th...
Nine Years 25 Aug 2013 | 03:55 pm
It was nine years ago today that I started the OF Blog (then named OF Blog of the Fallen) as an extension of wotmania's Other Fantasy section. Yet even in the early years, when posting was sporadic (...
List of Booker Prize winners 18 Aug 2013 | 12:38 pm
Since I've been reading the Booker Prize shortlists for the past few years (and largely reviewing the books on those shortlists), I thought I'd post here a list of the previous winners (similar to wha...
July 2013 Reads 4 Aug 2013 | 02:04 pm
It is hard to gauge the amount of reading that took place in July by a simple listing a books. One "book" for example could reasonably be listed as 37 (if divided by the original volume number) or ov...
Fractured prismic recollections 28 Jul 2013 | 01:54 pm
Woke up with a pressure headache early this morning, after sleeping only five hours (and before that, only 2.5 hours over nearly 36 hours). Began a re-read of William S. Burroughs' My Education: A B...
Lists related to the announcement of the Booker Prize longlist 24 Jul 2013 | 12:41 pm
Now that the Booker Prize longlist has been released (I've only read Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being), there has already been some discussion regarding this list. Here are some lists that coul...
Sometimes I think I read too much 22 Jul 2013 | 01:15 pm
Sometimes I find myself thinking too much about things read, things experienced or devised by others. Sometimes I think that I talk too much and listen too little, experiencing little for myself. So...
What the Birthday Squirrel bought for me in 2013 17 Jul 2013 | 12:41 pm
Another year has passed and as a whole new set of young squirrels ready themselves to leave their mothers' dreys to venture into the wider world, I become yet a bit older. Today is my 39th and it fin...
I attended the July 10 Neil Gaiman book signing in Nashville 11 Jul 2013 | 12:49 pm
Back in April, I learned that Neil Gaiman was undertaking what he was calling his last book signing tour. Out of idle curiosity, I checked the tour dates, expecting to see only Northeastern, Pacific ...
Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane 10 Jul 2013 | 02:41 pm
She smiled then. "You were Lettie's friend? From the top of the lane?" "You gave me milk. It was warm, from the cows." And then I realized how many years had gone by, and I said, "No, you didn't ...
